Re: FYI: Prime X670-P WiFI built in Ethernet detected and basically operational on main [so: 16]

On Sun, 21 Dec 2025 at 15:38, Mark Millard <marklmi@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> After my kernel update (pkgbase style) today I noticed that the built-in
> ethernet was detected. After the overall update, trying it for some basic
> operation looks to be working. (My context is normally limited to basic
> operation.) Up to this point I'd been using a USB3 dongle for Ethernet
> for this system.
>
> Extracted from "dmesg -a" output:
>
> Autoloading module: if_rge
> rge0: <RTL8125> port 0xe000-0xe0ff mem 0xdf400000-0xdf40ffff,0xdf410000-0xdf413fff at device 0.0 on pci8
> rge0: Ethernet address: REDACTED
> rge0: no link ....
> rge0: link state changed to DOWN
> rge0: link state changed to UP
> Starting Network: lo0 rge0.
> rge0: flags=1008843<UP,BROADCAST,RUNNING,SIMPLEX,MULTICAST,LOWER_UP> metric 0 mtu 1500
>         options=9b<RXCSUM,TXCSUM,VLAN_MTU,VLAN_HWTAGGING,VLAN_HWCSUM>
>         ether REDACTED
>         inet REDACTED netmask 0xffffff00 broadcast REDACTED
>         media: Ethernet autoselect (1000baseT <full-duplex>)
>         status: active
>         nd6 options=29<PERFORMNUD,IFDISABLED,AUTO_LINKLOCAL>
> . . .

Yay!

> rgephy0: <RTL8251/8153 1000BASE-T media interface> PHY 0 on miibus0
> rgephy0:  none, 10baseT, 10baseT-FDX, 100baseTX, 100baseTX-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX, 1000baseT-FDX-master, auto

Yup as you reported in the follow-up email; that's not for if_rge but
a realtek PHY for an earlier device (your USB dongle.)

I'm glad it works! Please do let me know if you experience any
hiccups. My goal is to make sure this is as bulletproof as
we can make it and that i share any fixes with the OpenBSD driver
maintainer (Kevin Lo.)



-adrian